Dozens feared dead in second Nigerian suicide attack
Date
11/19/2015 7:24:54 AM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Nigeria was hit by second wave of suicide bomb attacks Wednesday evening officials said less than 24 hours after the first attack.
The blasts in Kano state's capital Kano came after 32 people were killed in Adamawa state's capital Yola. Boko Haram militants are suspected in both attacks.
Police said 15 died as two female suicide bombers targeted a mobile phone market in Kano which serves as northern Nigeria’s commercial hub.
“We have 15 dead bodies from the suicide attacks on the GSM market in Kano while 58 people were injured” police spokesman Magaji Majia told Anadolu Agency by phone. “Of these however 53 have been treated and asked to go home.”
Local people claimed more than two dozen were killed.
Musa Ilella northwestern coordinator of the country's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) told Anadolu Agency earlier that victims were being evacuated.
“We do not have exact details of the number of deaths at the moment but a number of people have been killed while others were injured” he said by phone. “We are evacuating victims at the moment.”
Ilella said the attack was centered on a district known as the Palm Center.
Resident Ismail Bello said up to 25 dead bodies have been removed by emergency workers.
“Two female suicide bombers sneaked into the market where they detonated explosives wired to their bodies” he said. “We have seen up to 25 dead bodies although some were torn to pieces.”
The toll in Yola the capital of Adamawa state reached 32 dead and 80 injured Nema said earlier Wednesday.
The agency said a suicide bomber targeted a fruit and vegetable market in then suburb of Jimeta at around 8 p.m. local time (1900GMT) Tuesday.
President Muhammadu Buhari urged people to be vigilant in the wake of the attacks and spoke of his confidence that security forces would defeat “cowardly” militants.
“President Buhari reassures Nigerians that his administration is very much determined to wipe out Boko Haram in Nigeria and bring all perpetrators of these heinous crime against humanity to justice” spokesman Femi Adesina said in a statement.
Buhari has promised to defeat the group by the New Year.
Boko Haram has lost territory to the army in recent months and has switched to soft targets such as markets bus stations and mosques and churches in order to inflict large numbers of civilian casualties often using suicide bombers.
The group has killed more than 1800 since Buhari came to power in May and has killed thousands more in the six years since it launched its armed campaign in northern and eastern Nigeria.
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